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Despite reports to the contrary, it turns out Activision still plans to release the sequel to the amazing Marvel Ultimate Alliance within the year!At the very least, maybe Psyazzler will be featured in a NPC capacity?
Maximo is one of a not-so-new breed of out-and-proud Mexican wrestlers called exoticos. Apparently, they've been around since the 70's, delighting Mexican audiences with their amazing combination of fey, tinkerbellish prancey-danciness AND their strength and utter determination to win, but they've been experiencing a recent surge in popularity according to articles like THIS.He's the only exotico I know anything about but clearly he is the BEST of all the exoticos. Just look at that skirt...and look at that smile! Anyway there's a VIDEO of him doing his lucha libre magic after the button pressy thingy.
Continue reading ¡Me Amo Maximo!.
This is not the only thing of its kind, but THIS random name generator uses U.S. Census records as its source. Somehow it's just better than any I've used before.
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I've only rolled the dice a few times, and I've already gotten some keepers: Shasta Crockett, Noble Couture, Derek Dunkle, Ilana Wisdom, King Gilpin, Marketta Zamarripa. It only took two minutes to come up with a complete set of birthnames for my GAY SUPERHERO TEAM!
(Via John August)
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I've only rolled the dice a few times, and I've already gotten some keepers: Shasta Crockett, Noble Couture, Derek Dunkle, Ilana Wisdom, King Gilpin, Marketta Zamarripa. It only took two minutes to come up with a complete set of birthnames for my GAY SUPERHERO TEAM!
(Via John August)
Is "Rock Band" just TOO INEXPENSIVE to fit into your high-swank lifestyle? Do the garish "Guitar Hero" guitar controllers clash with the furniture in your condominium? Have you always wanted to try a Theremin, but the idea of buying a USED piece of musical equipment gives you hives?
Then "BEAMZ" is the perfect toy for you!
(h/t Sage)
The whole McSkeevey vs. Golan thing is so last year, I know, but for whatever reason I just CANNOT MOVE ON. It must have something to do with the incredible hotness of totally unghy Israeli stud Golan Cipel, the man who singlehandedly made powder blue Izods sexy again.
Well so in any case it's news to me--and maybe only to me--that he has a TOTALLY OFFICIAL WEBSITE where he finally gets to tell HIS SIDE of THE STORY. And let me tell you: I BELIEVE HIM.
Cipel paints an utterly boner-chilling story of a sexually obsessed, persistent, and borderline rapey boss (McGreevey) preying on the naivete and gratitude of a fresh-off-the-EL-AL-Airbus employee. His account includes many puzzling erotic details, like the following:
"I fell asleep, when all of a sudden I felt someone was pulling on my right leg. I looked down and saw the Governor lying next to me on the floor. His penis was exposed and he was rubbing it against my foot."Seriously, WHAT KIND OF A MONSTER would rub his penis against an innocently sleeping Cipel's foot, when he could just as easily have rubbed it against the inside of Golan's mouth?! What a waste.
The tension of Golan's story is amplified throughout by the generous use of completely inappropriate and random stock images. I highly recommend you check it out HERE.
As a once-rabid collector of Bantam's "Choose Your Own Adventure" series, as well as their "Choose Your Own Adventure Jr." series, I was stoked to discover Demian Katz' insanely detailed inventory of all CYOA and all CYOA Jr. titles, complete with pub dates, chronologies, brief reviews and, most importantly, high-res cover images! Although I haven't cracked the spine of a CYOA in at least fifteen years, I have no doubt that they still contain some very good for-hire grade writing. Remember debating the relative merits of authors Edward Packard, R.A. Montgomery, Susan Saunders (totally UNSUNG), Shannon Gilligan, and Louise Munro Foley? How about illustrators Paul Granger, Lorna Tomei, Don Hedin, and Ralph Reese?
One thing I DO NOT remember about the CYOA series was their commitment to tackling such hot button historical topics as slavery and the Holocaust, or contemporary issues like South African apartheid and global terrorism.
I think as a kid I would've appreciated the literalism of the cover for "The Underground Railroad", as it took me many years to understand that the Underground Railroad didn't, you know, actually have tracks. Plus at that age (7 or 8) I had many perverse fantasies of being thrown back into the slaveholding South or the civil rights era so I could wow everybody with how nice I was to black people. In these fantasies, after stopping a lynching or making an impassioned speech for equal rights, I think I was typically rewarded for my efforts with a kiss or more from a pretty black lady like the Baby Mama in this cover image. I think this book would've provided lots of grist for my white-savior complex.
Don't you think it's time for a new CYOA series, addressing the hot topics of OUR DAY? Such as, for example, the unlimited expansion of executive power, widespread corporate surveillance, Guantanamo, and tranny bathrooms?
